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James Jepson Binns (c. 1855–11 March 1928)
was a
pipe organ
The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air (called ''wind'') through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard. Because each pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ''ranks ...
builder based in
Leeds
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,
West Yorkshire
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,
England
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.
Organs
Pipe organs at the following locations were either built or rebuilt by James Jepson Binns or his JJ Binns company. A number of these buildings have been demolished and the organs broken up or destroyed. Many original Binns organs in this list have been subsequently rebuilt by other organ builders.
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Albert Hall, Nottingham
The Albert Hall is a conference and concert venue situated close to the centre of the city of Nottingham in England.
History
The original Albert Hall was started in 1873 as a Nottingham Temperance Hall. Watson Fothergill, a local architect ...
– built by Binns in 1909, replacing a Brindley & Foster destroyed by fire.
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All Saints' Church, Stamford
All Saints' Church, Stamford is a parish church in the Church of England, situated in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It is a Grade I listed building. The church is on the north side of Red Lion Square which was part of the route of the A1 unt ...
– the 1890 Hill organ was rebuilt by Binns in 1916.
*Baillie Street Methodist Church.
Rochdale
Rochdale ( ) is a large town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South Pennines in the dale on the River Roch, northwest of Oldham and northeast of Manchester. It is the administrative centre of the Metropolitan Borough ...
– built 1892. Building demolished, but organ acquired by
Christ Church, Worthing
Christ Church and its burial grounds in Worthing, England, were consecrated in 1843 by the Bishop of Chichester, Ashurst Turner Gilbert, to meet the need for church accommodation for the poor. Built by subscription between 1840 and 1843, the Chur ...
in 1967.
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Castle Street Methodist Church
Castle Street Methodist Church is a Methodist church located on Castle Street, Cambridge, England.
Castle Street is one of thirteen churches in the Cambridge Methodist Circuit.
It is a working church with a morning service each Sunday, and an e ...
, Cambridge has one of the last organs built before Binns's death.
*Christ Church,
Patricroft
Patricroft is a suburb near Eccles, Greater Manchester, England.
History
Patricroft may derive its name from 'Pear-tree croft', or more likely, 'Patrick's Croft'. In 1836, Scottish engineer James Nasmyth, in partnership with Holbrook Gaskell, bu ...
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City of Salford
The City of Salford () is a metropolitan borough within Greater Manchester, England. The borough is named after its main settlement, Salford. The borough covers the towns of Eccles, Swinton,
Walkden and Pendlebury, as well as the villages ...
– built 1896.
*Christ Church,
Great Ayton
Great Ayton is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. The River Leven (a tributary of the River Tees) flows through the village, which lies just north of the North York Moors.
Etymology
Great Ayton's ...
– build date uncertain, possibly around 1899.
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Christ Church, Worthing
Christ Church and its burial grounds in Worthing, England, were consecrated in 1843 by the Bishop of Chichester, Ashurst Turner Gilbert, to meet the need for church accommodation for the poor. Built by subscription between 1840 and 1843, the Chur ...
, acquired from Baillie Street Methodist Church, Rochdale in 1967 and rebuilt by Percy Daniel & Co. in 1970.
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Church of St Thomas the Martyr
The Church of St Thomas the Martyr (known as St Thomas' Newcastle) in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. Is one of the most prominent city centre landmarks, located close to both universities, the city hall and main shopping district i ...
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Newcastle upon Tyne
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– work on the 1902 Vincent and Co. organ by Binns, Fitton and Haley in 1931.
*Eldon Weslyan Methodist Church, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds (demolished). Organ relocated to Lidgett Park Methodist Church, Leeds
*Church of St Thomas, Stanningley, Pudsey Purchased 1906 by Dr James Varley-Roberts, Restored 1946, (Binns, Fitton and Haley). Leeds, West Riding (Yorkshire, West) Pudsey - Stanningley (SE2234), St. Thomas (Anglican Parish Church)
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Farnsfield parish church of St. Michael – build date unknown.
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Fulneck Moravian Church
Fulneck Moravian Church and its associated settlement were established on the Fulneck estate, Pudsey, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in 1744 by Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf, a Moravian Bishop and Lutheran priest, following a d ...
– 1930 work on 1748.
Schnetzler organ
*G.E. Franklin,
Derby
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gai ...
– 1903. Moved to
Castle Gate Congregational Centre
Castle Gate Congregational Centre is in Nottingham. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
The congregation formed in the 1650s. The first meeting house on Castle Gate was established in 1689 under the Act of Toleration.
The present build ...
in 1909.
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Galston Parish Church – 1913. – 3-manual pipe organ by J.J.Binns installed in 1913. It has an electro-pneumatic action patented by the organ maker. Centenary celebrations for the organ commenced with a Songs of Praise in Galston Parish Church on Sunday, 10 February 2013, featuring the congregation, organist and choirmaster Graeme Finnie and the Church Choir – along with international mezzo-soprano
Linda Finnie
Linda Finnie (born 9 May 1952) is a Scottish mezzo-soprano. She made her debut in 1976 with Scottish Opera, and has since made appearances all over Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right ...
. The service was conducted by Rev. Alastair Symington, ''locum tenens'' during the church's vacancy. Representatives of the Scottish Historic Organ Trust visited the church on 27 April 2013 to examine, photograph and play the organ. The British Institute of Organ Studies, in June 2013, awarded the Galston Organ a Grade 2* Historic Organ Certificate, the second highest grade of certificate awarded. A Celebrity Organ Recital was held on Saturday, 19 October at 7pm, featuring international organist
Ian Hare
Ian Hare is a former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Widnes, as a , i.e. number 2 or 5.
International honours
Ian Hare won a cap for Great B ...
.
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Gilcomston South Church
Gilcomston Church is an independent evangelical congregation, which meets in the church buildings on Union Street, Aberdeen. The congregation was formerly part of the Church of Scotland and known as Gilcomston South Church.
Overview
The churc ...
– 1902.
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Providence Congregational Church
Providence often refers to:
* Providentia, the divine personification of foresight in ancient Roman religion
* Divine providence, divinely ordained events and outcomes in Christianity
* Providence, Rhode Island, the capital of Rhode Island in the ...
, at Whitle,
New Mills
New Mills is a town in the Borough of High Peak, Derbyshire, England, south-east of Stockport and from Manchester at the confluence of the River Goyt and Sett. It is close to the border with Cheshire and above the Torrs, a deep gorge cut thro ...
– 1914.
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Jesmond Parish Church
Jesmond Parish Church is a parish church in the Church of England situated in Brandling Village in the Jesmond suburb of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England. The church's official name is the Clayton Memorial Church and is unusual among ...
, Tyneside (also known as Clayton Memorial Church) – rebuilt in 1913 with four manuals, but contains pipework from an earlier
T.C.Lewis organ.
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Jesus College Chapel, Oxford, 1899.
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Kingsway Hall
The Kingsway Hall in Holborn, London, was the base of the West London Mission (WLM) of the Methodist Church, and eventually became one of the most important recording venues for classical music and film music.
It was built in 1912 and demolished ...
, Holborn – 1912.
*Lothersdale Methodist Church, Op. 191, 1896, II/P/15. Church closed in 2010; instrument is currently undergoing an extensive rebuild in Germany.
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Queens' College, Cambridge
Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...
.
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Rochdale Town Hall
Rochdale Town Hall is a Victorian-era municipal building in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. It is "widely recognised as being one of the finest municipal buildings in the country",. and is recorded in the National Heritage List for Engla ...
pipe organ, built by Binns in 1913, rebuilt by J.W. Walker & Sons Ltd in 1979
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St Aidan's Church, Leeds – 1896.
[St Aidan's Leeds]
The Organ
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St. Bartholomew's Church, Barrow.
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St. Catherine's Church, Ventnor.
*St. Dunstan's Church,
Benoni, South Africa. The Ben Dijkman Organ was originally built in the 1870s by Binns in
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...
and installed in the NG Kerk in
Queenstown. In 1925 it was brought to Benoni for the Dutch Reformed Church in Benoni. They sold it to St. Dunstan's in 1948 and it had to be totally rebuilt and enlarged in 1961 when the church was extended. Approximately one-third of the present pipework and most of the air-chests are original, however, the case is new. Christian Ganser was the Organ Builder.
*St. Edward the Confessor, Barnsley
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St. George's Church, Hartlepool. Three-manual Binns organ built in 1904 and last renovated in 2015.
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St. Laurence's Church, Frodsham (also recorded as St. Lawrence's) – 1882-3 and rebuilt by J.J. Binns in 1923.
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St. Laurence's Church, Norwell, Nottinghamshire – 1908.
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St. Mary's Church, Astbury- 1912 for King's Hall, Stoke, but presented to St. Mary's by Stoke City Council in 1962 and rebuilt and installed by Reeves & Merner.
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St. Paul's Church, Boughton.
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St. Peter's Church, Harrogate – work on 1879
Edmund Schulze
Heinrich Edmund Schulze (26 March 1824 - 13 July 1878) was a German organ builder. He was the last of five generations of the Schulze family to build organs, starting with Hans Elias Schulze (1688–1762), Edmund's great-great-grandfather. He die ...
organ.
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Stoke Minster
Stoke Minster is the main church of St Peter ad Vincula and main church in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, England. Which is now the main church of the wider city of Stoke-on-Trent.
Name and dedication
The dedication to St Peter ad Vincu ...
– 1899, moved from private residence by unknown organ builder in 1927.
*St. John's Church,
Deptford
Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in southeast London, within the London Borough of Lewisham. It is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne. From the mid 16th century to the late 19th it was home to Deptford Dock ...
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London
London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...
– 1901.
*St. John's Church,
Haifa
Haifa ( he, חֵיפָה ' ; ar, حَيْفَا ') is the third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropol ...
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Israel
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
– 1914.
*St. Stephen's Comelybank Church, Stockbridge,
Edinburgh
Edinburgh ( ; gd, Dùn Èideann ) is the capital city of Scotland and one of its 32 Council areas of Scotland, council areas. Historically part of the county of Midlothian (interchangeably Edinburghshire before 1921), it is located in Lothian ...
– 1902.
*St. Wilfid's, Calverley, West Yorkshire – 1894.
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Wesley Chapel, Harrogate
Wesley Chapel, Harrogate is located on Oxford Street in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. It is a Grade II listed building.
History
Wesley Chapel opened in 1862. It was built by architects Henry Francis Lockwood and William Mawson. The facade is Hexast ...
– 1912.
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Former Wesleyan Chapel, Rodley,
Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by populati ...
, had a Binns organ, recorded there in 1886 and 1888, and photographed between 1902 and 1914. The chapel was demolished in 1973.
*George Street Methodist Church,
Little Driffield
Little Driffield is a small village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the western outskirts of Great Driffield, to the west of the A614 road and south of the A166 road. Little Driffield forms part of the civil paris ...
– 1906. Moved to
Acomb Methodist Church, Front Street, York in 1964. This organ is known locally to be one of the finest examples of the work of this well renowned organ builder. It is home to many tonal delights, and has stood the test of time. During 2009 a major restoration of the pedals was undertaken, and in 2010, the organ was awarded an Historic Organ Certificate.
References
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British pipe organ builders
1928 deaths
1855 births
People from Burley, Leeds